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Ash

Fraxinus excelsior

Ash appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 23
Contexts: 5
Mentions: 70

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: ash
Latin name: Fraxinus excelsior(ambiguous)
Identity note: Archive searches are noisy because ash can mean burned residue; tree-context terms are important.

Safety

moderate

Ash tree preparations differ from ash as residue; medicinal use requires modern safety review.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

Kew POWO: Ash tree preparations differ from ash as residue; medicinal use requires modern safety review.

Aliases

ashash treeFraxinus excelsior

Ash in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, folk magic, and symbolism. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

high

Culpeper's ash tree passage is botanical and medicinal: the tree is governed by the Sun, and young tops and leaves are used against venomous bites.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.

Symbolism

high

Teutonic Mythology preserves ash tree cosmogony, comparing Hesiod's men from ash trees with the Teutonic first man formed from the ash tree.

Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 | Viktor Rydberg | 1889

III.

Folk magic

high

Secrets of Black Arts connects a naturally curved ash tree bough with divining-rod and augural-staff superstition.

Secrets of Black Arts | Anonymous | 1850

EXTRAORDINARY FOREWARNING,

Preparations and ritual uses

Young ash tops and leaves

high

Culpeper uses young ash tops and leaves both inwardly and outwardly in historical antidote practice for venomous bites.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.

Ash-bough divining rod

high

Secrets of Black Arts describes an ash-tree bough shaped like an augur's staff as part of divining-rod superstition.

Secrets of Black Arts | Anonymous | 1850

EXTRAORDINARY FOREWARNING,

Ash Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2: Anthropogenesis.

Matched as ash tree; high confidence.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: A Book of Myths.

Matched as ash; high confidence.

Folk magic

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as ash tree; high confidence.

Preparation

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as ash tree; high confidence.

Symbolism

4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.

Matched as ash tree; high confidence.

Ash Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...tual against stiff and benumbed sinews, or those that are shrunk by cramps and convulsions, and helps the sciatica. ### ASH TREE. This is so well known, that time would be misspent in writing a description of it; therefore I shall only insist upon the virtues of it. *Government and virtues.*] It is governed by the Sun: and the young tender tops, with the leaves, taken inwardly, and some of them outwardly applied, are singularly good against the bitings of viper, adder, or any other venomous beast; and the water distilled therefrom being taken, a small quantity e..."

THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.Open in Reader

Preparationalias: ash treehigh confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"... . 36 Art Transmutatoire 36 Artephius 36 Arthur (King) 36 Artols (Countess of) 36 Asal '. . 36 Asbestos 36 Asclepius 36 Ash Tree 36 Ashipu '. 37 Ashtabula Poltergeisf • ... 37 Asian 37 Asipu 37 Aspects (Planetary) 37 Aspidomancy 37 Aspilette (Marie d') 37 Ass 37 Assassins 38 Asteroids .• . 41 Astolpho 41 Astral Body 41 Astral World 41 Astrology 42 Athanor 49 Atlantis 49 Atmadhyana ....... 50 Atman 50 Atmic 50 Attea Society 50 Attic Mysteries 50 Attwood (Mrs.) 50 Atziluth 50 August Order of Light .... 50 August Spirits (The Shelf of the). . 50 Aura . * 50 Auspice..."

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Astrologyalias: ash treehigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"... round, thick, firm, and of a green or purplish colour. The leaves stand irregularly on them, and are like those of the ash tree, only smaller. The flowers are large and elegant: they are of a pale red, white, or striped; and they stand in a kind of spikes at the top of the branches. The whole plant is covered in the summer months with a kind of balsam, which is glutinous to the touch, and of a very fragrant smell. This is so inflammable, that if a candle be brought near any part of the plant, it takes fire and goes off in a flash all over the plant. This does i..."

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Archive mentionalias: ash treemedium confidence

Secrets of Black Arts

Anonymous

1850

"..., having made use of the fall of their staffs for their signs.” With the divining rod seems connected a lusus nature of ash tree bough, resembling the litui of the Roman augurs and the Christian pastoral staff, which still obtains a place, if not on this account I know not why, in the catalogue of popular superstitions. Seven or eight years ago I remember to have seen one of these, which I thought extremely beautiful and curious, in the house of an old woman in Beeralston, Devonshire, of whom I would most gladly have purchased it; but she declined parting with i..."

EXTRAORDINARY FOREWARNING,Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: ash treehigh confidence

The Secret Doctrine Index

H. P. Blavatsky

1897

"...88-h.html#Pg427). - Asita the Dark, ii, [32](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54488/54488-h/54488-h.html#Pg032). - Ask or Ash tree, ii, [102](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54488/54488-h/54488-h.html#Pg102). - Asklepios, the Supernal Gods of, i, [658](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54824/54824-h/54824-h.html#Pg658). - Asp, Crown formed of an, ii, [30](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54488/54488-h/54488-h.html#Pg030). - Âsphujit, Venus or, ii, [35](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54488/54488-h/54488-h.html#Pg035). - Aspiring, Kokab the, ii, [477](http://www.gutenberg..."

INDEX TO VOLUMES I AND II.Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: ash treehigh confidence

Books Mentioning Ash

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

23 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Ash in Historical Sources

Medicine

Symbolism

Folk magic

Preparations and ritual uses

Young ash tops and leaves

Ash-bough divining rod

Ash Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Symbolism

Ash Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

The Family Herbal

Secrets of Black Arts

The Secret Doctrine Index

Related Archive Material

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Books Mentioning Ash